As Joe Mixon prepares for a winding road to NFL Draft Day, the circumstances surrounding his shocking roundhouse punch of a female student during his freshman year at Oklahoma remain under scrutiny.

The woman whom Mixon was charged with punching in 2014, after she allegedly used a racial slur toward him, gave a different account of the incident in an interview with Norman police released Thursday.

Soon after the encounter, Amelia Molitor told Norman Police Detective David Freudiger she never used racist language and was “hurt” that people were making her “out to be a racist,” according to the interview obtained by ESPN.

According to Molitor’s account of the confrontation, she and a friend were standing outside a restaurant near campus when Mixon and a group of friends started making sexual advances toward them.

“They were like making catcalls at me, commenting on how I looked,” she told the police. “They were talking about Joe, I suppose — I didn’t know who he was — like, ‘It’s my boy’s birthday, like, what are you going to do for him?’ Suggesting I go home with him, making very specific suggestions about what I could do to pleasure him. My first reaction was to laugh.”

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The encounter escalated when Mixon made a gay slur toward her friend, Molitor alleged.

“When I said I would never in a million years go anywhere with you, he goes, ‘Oh, so you’d rather go home with that f—— f—–?'” Molitor said. “I got really mad, so I faced Joe and was like, ‘Don’t f— with me. Do not mess with my friend. Just stop, go away.’ And he was like, ‘Oh you’re a bad b—-, what are you going to do about it?'”

After Molitor and her friend walked into the restaurant out of fear, she said, Mixon followed them and appeared to say something to her friend, which caused Molitor to push him. When he made a move toward her, she slapped him, and then he punched her, causing her to lose consciousness, according to the interview.

Mixon, the Sooners’ leading rusher this year as a junior, was charged with misdemeanor assault and suspended for the 2014 season. Molitor, an Oklahoma student at the time, suffered several broken bones in her face from the blow. Video footage, which an Oklahoma court made public in December, clearly shows Mixon punching Molitor inside a restaurant.

The NFL prospect apologized in a written statement in November, opening up two years after the incident because his lawyers “advised me against speaking publicly about an incident that occurred very shortly after I arrived in Norman,” he wrote.

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“I was not drinking. I have never had a drink in my life,” the statement continued. “At the end of the night, a group of apparently drunk people started harassing us. Some of my teammates were wise enough to leave. I did not, and I am sorry.”

Mixon apologized again a month later, after video of the incident was released, saying it was “never, never OK to retaliate and hit a woman the way I did.”

“In her police interview, Ms. Molitor herself admits her memories of the night are hazy and scattered,” he said. “Eyewitnesses report that Ms. Molitor was belligerent and apparently inebriated.

“The statements from these witnesses about what occurred are also consistent with what Joe reported to the police and has always maintained. Joe’s report of what was said and occurred is corroborated by others and is simply more credible.”